Song Lian was ill since childhood, and his family was poor, but he was smart and studious, so he was known as a "child prodigy". He was employed by Ji Meng, Wu Lai, Liu Guan, Huang Cheng and others. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he resigned from the imperial court and ordered monks to write books. In the early Ming Dynasty, he was hired by Zhu Yuanzhang and was honored as a teacher of the Five Classics, giving lectures for Prince Zhu Biao. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), he was ordered to major in Yuan history. Most of the court etiquette was formulated for him when he was tired of being an official and learned the imperial edict from the Hanlin bachelor.
Hongwu ten years (1377), resigned as an old man and returned to his hometown. Later, because his eldest grandson was involved in the Hu case, he was demoted to Maozhou and died in Kuizhou at the age of 72. Ming Wuzong pursued "Wen Xian", so he called it "Song Wenxian".
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Song Lian's works include New Theory of Filial Piety, Zhou Lun, hundred schools of thought Contention, Biography of Longmenzi's Ning Dao, 30 volumes of Ganxi's Internal and External Collection, 25 volumes of Luanpo Collection, 2 volumes of Luoshan Poetry Collection, 2 volumes of Puyang Characters, 40 volumes of Hanyuan Collection, and Song History/kloc.
He also wrote 20 volumes of Bian Hai Lei and 16 volumes of Hongwu Zheng Yun. He once edited the meta-history of volume 2 10. Except the History of Emperor Wu of Hong, which is a single line, and the History of Yuan Dynasty, all other works were later combined into the Complete Works of Song Dynasty (also known as the Complete Works of Song Wenxian or the Collected Works of Song Dynasty) with 75 volumes. Among them, the preface to seeing Ma Sheng off to Dongyang was included in the eighth grade classical Chinese unit of People's Education Edition. In the next generation, Song Lian is the first person to open a private library.